Sentences with phrase «highly endangered»

The highly endangered Humpback Whale «Megaptera novaeangliae» was down to 1400 individuals 45 years ago (at the end of commercial whaling in 1966).

And recently the first recorded nesting in modern times of the highly endangered short - tailed albatross has also been recorded on Midway.

When the World Wildlife Fund installed a camera on the grounds of a forest in Indonesia's Riau Province, they were hoping to better understand the movement of the highly endangered Sumatran tigers that live there — but what they captured instead was devastation.The WWF installed heat - activated cameras in the forests of Indonesia to track the elusive and endangered tiger between two important protected wildlife preserves in Bukit Batabuh.

Lead contamination also poses a threat to other Midway wildlife, including the highly endangered Laysan duck and 17 other species of seabirds.

Highly endangered coastal habitats are incredibly effective in sequestering carbon and locking it away in soil, according to a new paper in a report by the IUCN.

Only then can we secure a future for these highly endangered species,» said Thornton.

The Sundarbans: a near - mythic landscape of forest and swamp, byzantine river channels and tidal mud flats, one of the last strongholds of the highly endangered Bengal tiger.

«By working together, these governments are helping to ensure the survival of this highly endangered tortoise.»

Third, Barbuda is highly endangered by climate change and sea level rise.

After the senseless massacre of nine mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park last July, the outlook is not good for these shy and highly endangered primates.

Artist Statement «The Mexican Gray Wolf is highly endangered, with only about 100 individuals living in the wild.»

I still think the Oddworld games reached their peak with 2001's Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, which moved the original's platforming and puzzle action to three - dimensional environments while adding a new playable character with a fresh set of abilities in the form of a toothy fish named Munch, a member of a highly endangered (and apparently particularly tasty) species called gabbits.

Camping at Jersey Zoo offers an experience that is every bit as rare as some of the highly endangered species within the park.

Camping at Durrell offers an experience that is every bit as rare as some of the highly endangered species that Durrell host in their wildlife park.

Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary has been trying to organize to protect the area's sea turtles, which are being killed for their shells (especially the highly endangered Hawksbill turtle), sold to Chinese companies for carving into trinkets.

That's a Hawaiian Monk Seal — a highly endangered species of seal that seems to love to come to Poipu Beach.

While the leatherback numbers are declining worldwide and they remain highly endangered, it is estimated that between 600 and 800 females come to the shores of Playa Grande annually.

Discover the park's diverse wildlife on a kayak expedition and a boat safari, and learn about local conservationists» efforts to protect the highly endangered green sea turtle.

Come face to face with grey whales in San Ignacio Lagoon, see highly endangered Guadalupe fur seals and observe blue, sperm, Bryde's and humpback whales on this trip of a lifetime on board the Sear...

What many people may not know is that there is a related virus, phocine distemper, that can be deadly to seals and that poses a significant threat to marine mammal species around the world, and potentially to the highly endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

Asian elephants are perhaps not as well known in the West as African elephants, although they are also highly endangered.

Folwells [from the Cajun Faux and Weeeeeee] This highly endangered and elusive species (folwellius dunbarian, estimated population: 1.

North Atlantic right whales - a highly endangered species making modest population gains in the past decade - may be imperiled by warming waters and insufficient international protection, according to a new Cornell University analysis published in Global Change Biology.

Such a drastic attempt to rescue a highly endangered species has precedents.

Top whale researchers are arguing that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should reexamine a major regulation designed to reduce collisions between ships and highly endangered North Atlantic right whales.

African non-human primates are highly endangered and require non-invasive sampling methods to gain insight into their health.

In other news, ICCAT agreed to keep its catch limits unchanged for highly endangered bluefin tuna.

The survey documented the presence of the highly endangered northern giraffe Kordofan subspecies, likely to be the last remaining population in CAR and in danger throughout much of its range in Africa.

In the 1970s, its nest sites were pillaged for the pet trade, and it remains highly endangered — not least because individuals don't reach sexual maturity until they are 25 years old.

One of more than 20 subspecies of cougar and native to the southeastern United States, the Florida Panther is most certainly still highly endangered.

South Asian nations have established 11 safe zones as part of a wider effort to protect three highly endangered vulture species.

«These animals have been living on the edge and are highly endangered,» Mitani said, noting that «we're placing them in even more vulnerable conditions.

Plans to drill for oil in one of the last remaining habitats of the highly endangered Rothschild's giraffe could further threaten this neglected animal

The researchers studied two different species: the highly endangered red - shanked douc and the mantled howler monkey.

Scientists with the VaquitaCPR conservation project and Mexico's Secretary of the Environment Rafael Pacchiano announced they succeeded in locating and rescuing a highly endangered vaquita porpoise yesterday, but in an abundance of caution the vaquita, which was a calf, was released.

«Tigers are so highly endangered that they may soon be extinct in the wild,» says Robert Hepworth of the United Kingdom's Department of the Environment.

Breeding two highly endangered animals or subspecies through conventional mating is a difficult and often futile undertaking.

«The Himalayan brown bears, for example, are highly endangered.

Recent research has shown that the habitat of one highly endangered species rarely overlaps with that of another, he says.

Chilabothrus argentum, the silver ghost: Highly endangered and found only on one small island bank in the Bahamas, this West Indian boa is a striking silver color.

We verified a reforestation project in the highly endangered Atlantic Forest of Brazil as a carbon offset for Jacques Vabre, a coffee brand in France.

By analysing 599 samples of chimp droppings (P. T. troglodytes are a highly endangered and thus protected species that can not be killed or captured for testing), the researchers were able to obtain 34 specimens that reacted to a standard HIV DNA test, 12 of which gave results that were virtually indistinguishable from the reactions created by human HIV.

Not exact matches

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

National Treasures are highly significant endangered historic places throughout the country where the National Trust for Historic Preservation makes a long - term commitment to staying involved until a solution is reached.

Once a highly abundant bird, today the Oriental white - backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) is listed as critically endangered by BirdLife International.

This region features unique, highly diverse arid and semi-arid habitats inhabited by rare and endangered plants and animals, and provides a vital migratory stopping point for many species of birds and animals on their journey across the continent.

In every group of animals, Frynta says, «we can find some species which are highly preferred and also endangered.»

One of the exceptions is the endangered Sonoran pronghorn, which is highly sensitive to human activity, roads and fencing of any kind.

He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).

Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain.